Melodrama about an actress falling in love with a man who wants her to give up her job.

A man and a woman struggle to stifle their love for each other, even after he moves away to travel the world and she marries a suitor.

The successful shipowner Georg Behrendsen and his wife Irene are coming from South America to Germany for business. While negotiating in the home of senator Kersten, the senator's son Wilhelm (Werner Fuetterer) is taking care of Irene Behrendsen. The two fall in love with each other and decide to marry after Irene's divorce from her husband. But the old senator forces his son to decide whether to ...